1. This somewhat doctored photo of me is actually a pretty good likeness - I live in my head, my nose is crooked, and my once beautiful brown hair is now mostly white.  

2. I'm a 4th generation Oregonian who longs to live in a nice city like New York or London.  

3. I visit the family plot at a cemetery in Forest Grove, Oregon, at least a couple of times a year.  Several generations of my family are there - my father's grave is the most recent - and you can look around at the remaining plots and make a pretty fair guess at which one you'll occupy one day.  

4. I like old pioneer cemeteries.  I like walking around, looking at the different engraving styles, and calculating how long people lived.  

5. My best friend for the last 46 years (but who's counting?) is also on OS.  We met in grade school and he invited me to come play at his house - where his dog, a gigantic full size poodle inappropriately named "Cuddles," promptly bit me.  

6. I've been married twice - once unhappily for about 7 years and the current time quite happily for about 23 years.  

7.  My mother taught me to play piano and read music at such an early age that I quite literally can not remember ever not reading music.  More than 50 years later my mother still plays the piano quite well and certainly better than I can.  

8. I love music and in addition to piano, have played trombone, guitar, and didgeridoo more or less seriously, but still not well.  

9.  I play lots of games, like chess, go, bridge, European board games, WOW, and anything else I can.  If I had to play just one game, it would be bridge.  

10. I am a serious reader and keep a log of all books I read as well as a reader's diary of especially interesting quotes/thoughts.  Most years I finish at least one book a week; due to a special effort this year to eliminate some of my backlog I have finished something over 100 books.

11.  My favorite book, for reasons that have nothing to do with its literary quality, is Will Cuppy's How To Be a Hermit.  

12. I love all things Japanese - or at least those of a romanticized 19th century Japan.  

13.  I have a modest collection of fountain pens, with italic nibs, and love writing thank you notes. 

14. I was a member of a Sherlock Holmes club for many years.  

15. I make my living as a CIO (Chief Information Officer).

16.  I did graduate work in Psychology at the State University of New York at Buffalo.  Think statistics and research methods rather than clinical psychology. 

17. I have lately discovered a passionate yearning to play golf - perhaps a genetic inheritance from my golf-playing grandfather and father? - though I am by no means even a weekend athlete.  

18. One of my most treasured possessions is a pocket knife given to me by my maternal grandfather 45 years ago.  

19. My wife and son were both born in Ohio - a state where I've never even been. 

20. I converted to Judaism over 30 years ago and remain one of the most observant atheistic Jews I've ever met.  

21. I am a serious meditator, of the insight variety, and rarely miss a day's practice.  

22. I know a great many people but have few close friends.  I do, however, keep friends for life.  

23. I'm an ENFP.  

24. I don't have an entrepreneurial bone in my body - but wish I did.

25. I do overtone singing - like the Tuvaans, sort of.